William Shakespeare Quotes
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There is a world elsewhere.
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Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.
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Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.
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O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?
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They were devils incarnate.
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
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Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.
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How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
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Things may serve long, but not serve ever.
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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
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Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
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For I am nothing if not critical.
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Blood will have blood.
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Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
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Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
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Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
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He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.